熾 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

kindling fire

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • おこ(る)
  • おこ(す)
  • さかん
Other languages
  • 拼音chi4
  • 한글chi
  • Hán-Việt

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
火(ひ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+71BE

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰火戠

Words using this kanji

  • 熾すおこすto build (a fire), to make, to start, to light
  • 熾烈しれつが強くこと。 が強くさま。fierce (fight, competition, etc.), severe, hot, hard
  • 熾火おきびglowing ember (either red hot charcoal or the glowing remains of burnt firewood), live charcoal
  • 熾熱しねつintense heat
  • 熾盛しじょう炎上するようにがなこと。また、その様子。vigor (like leaping flames), liveliness
  • 熾るおこるto catch fire (of charcoal), to start burning, to burn away, to burn merrily
  • 熾きるおきる「おきる」を参照。to be kindled (fire), to be made
  • 熾天使してんしキリスト教などのある学派における、天使の階層の一つ。又はその階層に属する天使。天使に関する最も有力な説における最高位の天使で、キリストの生誕をマリアに告げた(受胎告知)、ガブリエルなどがこの階層に属するとされる。セラフ、セラフィム。seraph

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(8 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-12
Four Corner
9385.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d12.5
Nelson
2801